Sports

Split personality Cubs split doubleheaders

It marked four games for the Dillon Cubs across two days against the same team, two at home and two played less than two hours away at the home of the Belgrade Bandits.

American Legion Dillon Cubs honor program stalwarts

On one of their wildest, most wide-ranging weekends in recent memory, it seemed perhaps only fitting that the Dillon Cubs took time to honor a man who kept them on course from a fledgling program four decades ago to becoming a state champion and a perennially competitive and admirable American Legion Baseball program.

State C track results

State C track and field meet at Missoula

Perfect technique

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Dillon junior Treyton Anderson played a key role in Dillon’s run to a second place team finish at the state A track meet in Laurel. Anderson won the maximum seven medals, including state titles in both hurdle races. In the photo above, Anderson cruises to the gold in the 110 meter hurdles, over a second ahead of the second place runner from Whitefish. 

Dillon boys second at state A track

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The Dillon Beaver track and field team bounced in and out of the top 3 during Saturday’s final day of the two-day state A meet at Laurel, before making a final push late in the day into second place in the final team standings.

Beavs make statements at state tennis

A long and winding weekend at the state tourney last weekend in Billings at the end of a long and winding season left the Beaverhead County Tennis Team at a destination of satisfaction.

“We played in the first group of matches on the court Thursday morning and ended up being the last match indoors on Friday evening,” said BCHS Head Coach Jeff Koslosky of his program’s participants at the Montana State A Tennis Tournament last week at several locations in Billings.

“So it was long weekend for our state players, but a rewarding one.”

Ainsley leads Dillon girls with 5 medals

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Dillon junior Ainsley Shipman claimed the triple jump state championship and totaled five medals to lead the Dillon Lady Beavers to fifth place at Laurel over the weekend. The host team dominated the meet to win the title.

Shipman’s weekend proved busy with six events and eight total competitions including the preliminaries in the 100 hurdles and the 4X100 relay.

“Coaching is everything,” said Shipman on Sunday at the BCHS graduation. “I think all my successes, my coaches have been a big part of that. I’m really thankful for our coaching staff.”

Four Beaver boys, two girls earn spots in this week’s state tourney

In a Southwest A Divisional tourney blown ahead on calendar by unpromising weather forecasts, the Beaverhead County High School boys tennis team stood firm last week in the Bitterroot Valley, reaffirming its stature as the league’s top team by winning the boys team tourney title.

“We had a pretty good couple of days,” said BCHS Tennis Head Coach Jeff Koslosky of his Beaver boys and girls performances in Hamilton at the Southwest A Division tourney that got played a couple days earlier than originally scheduled.

Anderson wins four titles and a second at Western A

The Dillon Beavers earned 48 team points from junior Treyton Anderson and totaled 68 points overall to place third in the team standings at the Western A Divisional Track and Field Meet at Columbia Falls last weekend. Dillon advances a solid crew with trophy potential to the state meet in Laurel this weekend.

Lady Beavers place fourth at divisional

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Ainsley Shipman will lead a crew of talented and deep of Dillon hurdlers and jumpers to Laurel this weekend in pursuit of state meet hardware. Sydney Petersen, a freshman, will run and jump as copilot of the Lady Beaver track and field machine.